Olop johanson



0. JOHANSON. Locket.

Nb. 228,819. Patented June 15, 1880.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR:

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ATTORNEY ILPETEH. PNOYO-LITNDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT tries.

OLOF JOHANSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,819, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed December 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLOF J OHANSON, or New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lockets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a neat, novel, and attractive keepsake or trinket, to be worn attached to a watch-chain or used for a breastpin, brooch, or other ornament, and which, while being of any shape, and ornamented on its outer face as desired, and perforated for the attachment of a ring, shall be so constructed that it may be opened in two and contain interior spaces eccentrically arranged for carrying a small photograph or other memento, as in an ordinary locket.

My invention consists of a locket composed of two halves or parts pivotally secured to each other by a hollow rivet connecting them within their peripheries, and having recesses on their inner faces for receiving pictures or mementos, eccentrically arranged to better expose said pictures or mementos to view, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective exterior View of a closed locket constructed according to my invention out of two disks, preferably of gold or silver, the outer face of the upper disk being ornamented with the profile of a persons head or other suitable device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged face View of the same when open. Fig. 3- is an enlarged diametrical or central section of the same when closed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The locket is composed of two disks, the outer faces of which may be ornamented as desired. In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown the outer face of one of the disks ornamented with D represents a ring passing through the hollow rivet, for carrying the locket suspended.

In one or both of the opposite inner surfaces of the two parts A B, I form recesses a b, which can be made just deep enough to receive thin photographs or other mementos intended to be kept in the locket.

The recesses a b in the inner faces of the disks A B for the reception of pictures or mementos are arranged eccentrically, so that by sliding the disks apart in one direction a view of the picture can be obtained without sliding the disks so far apart as when the recesses are centrally arranged, and an entire view of the picture can be obtained, when if the recesses were arranged centrally in the disks but a partial view would be obtained, as a portion of the picture would be hid by the overlapping edge of the upper disk. By this eccentric arrangement of the recesses they may be made larger, and larger pictures inserted therein, and can be more fully displayed than if the recesses were central.

The exterior design may, of course, be varied.

Heretofore lockets have been constructed of two disks pivotally and eccentrically secured together within their circumferences, and provided with a suspension-ring, and recesses arranged centrally in their inner faces for the reception of pictures, and ornamented on their outer faces, and I therefore lay no claim to such construction. And I am also aware that three disks centrally pivoted together and provided with eccentrically-arranged recesses have heretofore been employed for other purposes than my invention, and I therefore lay no claim to such construction, broadly, my invention being confined to a locket consisting of two disks eccentrically pivoted or connected together within their circumferences by a hollow rivet, and provided with recesses on their inner faces for pictures eccentrically arranged, whereby the disks can he slid apart and a better view of the pictures be obtained than in the central arrangement of said recesses.

Having thus described my invention, I

Patent-- As a new article of manufacture, a locket said disks, substantially as described, and for consisting of the two disks A B, eccentrically the purpose set forth. pivoted or connected together within their circumferences by a hollow rivet, through 7' OLOF JOHANSON' which the ring D is inserted, and provided Witnesses:

with recesses a Z) for the insertion of pictures A. W. ALMQVIsT,

eccentriczilly arranged in the inner faces of O. SEDGWIGK. 

